Fossil Pedagogy Poem by Konalli Rajeev Naik

Bangle mouthed long wooden pestles
Seven number bodied wooden ploughs
Pitcher belied huge grind stones
Lie down comfortably
At the second hand goods' shop
Gobbling the dust of many decades.
Jubilant shouts of the mills
Unpleasant groan of the electric grinder
The ruthless roar of the tractor
Drill the holes in our ears.
But the great directors
Of the art films
Explore the fossils
To loot the national and international awards.
The rightist historian teaches:
"Huge old grind stones
Were used to grind the explosives
Wooden ploughs were used
To split the soul of the soil.
Long wooden pestles were used
To thrash the heads of the enemy soldiers."
Our primary school children memorized it.

- Konalli Rajeev Naik